Game apparatus



1,627,120 T. A. SAYEGH GAME APPARATUS Filed Jan. 6, 1927 AI'TURHZY IPatented May 3, 1927.-

'UNITED STATES tame TOUFIK ALBERT SAYEGH, or CENTRAL rAL s', 'RnoniiISLAND.

GAME APPARATUS.

- Application filed January 8, 1927. Serial No. 159,372.

My invention has reference to an improvement in devices usedin playinggames and more particularly toan improvement in a gan'le apparatus, usedinplaying such games as indoor tennis, base ball, golf and the like.

The object of my invention is to improve the construction of a gameapparatus, for

tion, as will be more fully set' forth herein- 7 after and claimed. 1

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved game apparatus.

Figure 2 is a side view or the ratus, shown partly in sectlon.

Figure 3 is an enlarged longitudinal secgame, appational view of thegame apparatus, taken on. line 3, 3, of Figure 1,'with the handle and aportion of the opposite end broken oiLand Figure 4 is an enlargedtransverse sectional View taken on line 4, 4, ofFigure 1. In the drawing5 indicates my improved game apparatus and 6 a ball. This ball 6 may beany kind of a ball used in playing indoor games.

My improved game apparatus 5 consists of an elongatedbase 7 havingahandle 8 i on one end and a central groove 9 in the top.

01' the base, at the other end. On the base 7 is acover 10 open at eachend and having a semi-circular top 11, flat sides 12, 12, with L shapefeet 13, 13, secured to the base 7 by screws 14, 14. In the cover 10 arethree separate tubular members 15, 16 and 17. The pull member 15 is atthe handle 8 end of the apparatus and it has a closed outer end 18 onwhich is a knob 19. The striking member 16 is at the other end of thecover 10 and it has a closed outer end portion 20 on which is anenlarged striking end 21 larger and normally contactingwith that end ofthe cover 10 and having a sliding fit on the top of the base 7. Thetubular member 17 is placed intermediate the members 15 and 16, as shownin Figures 2 and 3.

The tubular members 15, 16 and 17 form a bore 22, closed at each end. Inthis bore 22 is a comparatively large main helical spring 23, secured atone end to the closed end 18 of the tubular member 15 and secured at itsother endto the closed end portion 20 of the tubular member 16, by. anywell known ineans'p On each side of the intermediate tubular member 17is a comparative small PA ENT OFFICE...

helical spring 24, each spring 24 being secured at one end to the base 7and at the other end to the intermediate tubular member'17, one end ofthese springs 24, 24, is secured to the base 7 towards the handle 8 andthe other ends towards the other end 01'? the game apparatus, as shownin Figures -2 and 4, and the means for securing these springs 24, 24 maybe any well known means. These springs 24, 24, are normally under springtension so as to pull the. intermediate tubular member 17 towards thehandle 8. The large main helical spring 23 having greater spring tensionholds all of the tubular members 15, 16 and 17 in their normalpositions, as, shown in full lines'in Figures 2 and 3.

When my improved game apparatus '5 is in use, the'object. to be thrown,such as the ball 6, is placed on the base 7 at the inner end of thegroove 9 and against the enlarged striking end 21 of the tubularstriking member 16,'as shown in Figures 1 and '2. The knob 19 is thendrawn out by hand towards the handle 8, thereby placingthe tubularmembers 15 and 17, in'the separated posimoving the intermediate tubularmember 17 towards the handle'8, as shown in broken lines also inFigure 1. The game apparatus is now aimed in the direction in which theball 6 is to be thrown and the knob 19 re- 'tions, as shown'in brokenlines in Figure 1. The contraction of the small springs 24, 24,

distance required and the groove 9 guides the ball in the directiondesired.- The contraction of the springs 23 and 24 now causes thetubular members 15. 16 and 17 toassume their normal positions, as shownin full lines in the drawing.

Having thus described my invention I claim as new A game apparatuscomprising an elongated base, a handle on one end of the base, a coveron the base and forming a tube, a tubular striking member in one end ofthe cover and normally contacting with the end of the cover, a tubularpull striking member in the other end of the cover, a knob on the pullstriking member, an intermediate tubuclosed at 'each 'en:d.;a helicalspring in thecentral bore, one end of the spring being termediatetubular striking member and at their other ends tothe base, for thepurpose has described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name ,to this speelfieetion.

TOUFIKALBERT SAYEGH.

